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A CAMPAIGN FOR REAL MILK
It has been a long-term goal of the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) to have legal access to raw milk in all 50 states. That day is getting closer; there are currently 43 states that allow legal access to raw milk through either sales for human consumption, raw pet milk sales, or distribution through herdshare agreements. When we started A Campaign for Real Milk in 1999, that number was 27. The states without any legal access are Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
There are a number of states where distribution is legal but limited. The aim is to legalize some form of raw milk distribution in the states where it is currently illegal and to expand access to states where it is legal but availability is restricted.
WAPF is committed to putting more resources into the drive for legalization in the remaining seven states as its first objective. Louisiana, which came close to passing a raw milk bill two years ago, and New Jersey are the priorities for this year. WAPF is conducting a campaign to pay for lobbyists in those states as well as to pay for other expenses associated with changing the law.
THANK YOU! WE HAVE REACHED OUR GOAL! Additional donations will allow us to focus beyond this immediate need in Louisiana and New Jersey. DONATE NOW
In addition to working for legal access in the remaining seven states over the next few years, we will continue to work in other states to increase access especially where the laws are overly restrictive. We need your help! Your donations will go a long way towards making this a reality and increasing availability of this nutrient-dense food for your children and grandchildren.
Raw milk can be a gateway for small-farm prosperity with consumers purchasing meat, poultry, eggs, produce and other products once they set foot on the farm to obtain milk. Invest in the future of small, sustainable farms and in the future of your family’s health by contributing to the fundraising drive of A Campaign for Real Milk to legalize raw milk access in all states.
As always, your generosity will make a difference. Let’s finish the work that WAPF members and many others set out years ago to accomplish.
Thank you for your continued support!
Photo captured by Sandrine Perez
Organically produced RAW creamery butter and Kefir derived from a healthy herd is the absolute ultimate in nutrition. Throughout life, mental and physical development and disease resistance are significantly impaired without them.
EXCELLENT COMMENTS. GRANDMA AND GRANDPA HAD RAW MILK…..THUS….WE AS KIDS. REGULAR MILK FROM THE GROCERY STORES ENDS ME UP IN THE “BATHROOM”….WE CAN GET RAW MILK FROM “CLUB”……BUY A PORTION OF A COW AND IT IS “OUR COW”…!!!
Where can I get raw milk from a trusted source. I live in Cleveland Ohio. I would greatly appreciate it if you can direct me to where to, if you can of course. Thank you 😊
http://www.eatwild.com search your zip code
Heinens carries raw milk, Hurtingzer
We just began purchasing some from Stone Garden and Farm in Richfield. They have a beautiful farm and you can get raw milk. We are in bay village and drive out there but if you find someone near you, you can share pick ups!
It’s been a real joy to maintain the RealMilk.com listings since 2001. I have seen the numbers rising rapidly for years and have read so many comments on the site and testimonials emailed to the webmaster. Raw milk has been lifesaving for so many, and farmsaving for so many, too! Please donate and let’s get to legal access in all 50 states!
I love Raw Milk! I can get some from the store here in Los Angeles, California. It’s good, but not awesome like straight from the farm. I used to pick some up from an Organic Dairy in northern California, but can’t find one here. They don’t advertise because they don’t want to “get in trouble”. Thank you for helping them! 🙂
Hi, I live in North Carolina, USA and am not able to access any raw milk, (legally), because it is against the law here still! If anyone is caught selling raw milk to anyone, they are at least fined, if not worse!
I’m wanting to start up my own organic farm in North Carolina, providing raw milk from cows and goats, because of the health benefits! We must get this changed!
Look up Nature’s Roots Farm in Oxford, NC. You can buy a glass jar with an optional free gift of milk to put in it. 100% grass-fed, zero grain EVER, with (rotational) holistic planned grazing. 100% chemical free. They have tons of other good stuff too. Forest-fed pork, Long-fermentation, naturally leavened sourdough breads, grass-finished beef, etc.
Do you have to boil the raw milk once you get it?
No this would defeat the purpose of searching out raw milk and its benefits that are intact when not boiled or pasteurized.
Have you found a raw milk source straight from a farm in California. I’m in los angeles and looking for a raw milk source in California. I’m trying to find a farm I can drive to to pick up fresh milk.
I live in Louisiana is it is crazy that in a state so tied to our heritage and traditions we gave up our right to raw milk all together. I have never had raw milk but with all the research I have read and all the coverage I want it! I want my nieces and nephews to have it! I want all these over fed and malnourished kids all over my state to have it!
Over fed and malnourished. Amen!
Louisianian here too. Desperate for raw milk! We are setting up a homestead, getting ready to expand our little farm so we will have the ability to have our own raw milk. Something so vitally healthy yet so out of reach for most of us.
I moved from California to Hawaii, and the dairy situation in Hawaii is ridiculous. Such a shame, because there is a vibrant locavore movement and many people raise quality cattle for beef in the islands. Why no grassfed cow dairy in the state with the most abundant green grass in the nation? The only good milk and cheese sold is from goats. It is my belief that changing the laws will encourage responsible farmers to raise quality dairy cows and give customers options beyond overpriced ultrapasteurized dead milk shipped from the mainland.
i love raw milk from cows, sheep and goats. i use them to make kefir, yogurt and also mix with raw cacao and honey for rich, flavorful hot chocolate. hate that someone else want to decide what i eat.
EXACTLY!!! The government is in to too much of our business sometimes, and we need to take some of it back! We pay them with our hard earned tax money! They should do as we want / need!!!
As a long time raw milk consumer, I have personally witnessed the need to “validate the quality” of the farm practices where I buy my raw milk. I’ve tasted raw milk that smelled like urine and poop and been told by the farmer “that’s because they are switching over to fresh grass”. That farmer had dirty cows in dirty conditions and a defensive attitude, not convictions based on highest standards of purity, quality, cleanliness. Today I have a very conscientious farmer who won’t sell if there’s any question of purity. How does the average consumer know if there’s something to be worried about? Please respond to the frightening accounting of this website: http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/outbreak-tables and tell me 1) are these outbreak facts real, or propaganda? 2) what could the consumer have done differently to avoid infection if these accounts are real, so we can be forearmed in the future, and 3) what accountability does Weston A. Price Foundation wish to see levied against the guilty provider, when a farm does have contamination and an outbreak that endangers consumers? If not consequences, then what interventions does WAP wish to coordinate to bring that farm up to safe standards? I value raw milk, and the access to highly nutritious food, and I value human lives. I need to understand how to assess risk of contamination – whether it’s routine testing (can this be done, and is it affordable?) or whether it’s simple sanitation practices I can observe myself. Cow poop stinks and even in clean farm settings, it seems to get everywhere. If the contamination doesn’t come from the cow poop, then where does it come from? Is there a basic tutorial available about how a consumer can properly vet the farm before they purchase raw milk?
Respectfully signed: Guilty of trusting others to confirm safety, rather than doing that job myself on my own behalf.
I think you identified the main problem yourself in your opening comments: check out the farm! Yes, cows produce manure. But it should not be pasted to their udders and smeared about the milking parlor. Neither should cows be standing in the muck or stuck in buildings. Milking stations should be clean and free from flies and foul odor. Cows should be on pasture, or in clean, airy housing in cold weather climates. They should be eating high quality hay or haylage (during the winter), fresh grasses and herbs in the warm months. They also should not be housed with pigs.
As to whether or not these are real cases, yes. However, raw milk seems to be the go-to culprit swiftly tagged, and very often without due process. We know of quite a few cases where raw milk was blamed while non-raw milk drinkers in the same areas were experiencing the same symptoms. Check out this article, for instance: https://www.realmilk.com/safety/bogus-accusations-raw-milk-caused-illness/ . But certainly, raw milk can make people sick under less-than-sanitary conditions or when cattle are not fed a high quality, natural (to them ie: grasses and herbs, very limited organic grains optional) diet.
The role of WAPF is not to police the farms providing raw milk to our friends and members, but to educate the consumer and farmer as to the production and availability of safe, raw milk. Our individual chapter leaders take it upon themselves to seek quality farms that provide quality foods but, they cannot be everywhere all of the time. It is incumbent upon the consumer to take a look themselves at each farmer/provider before deciding from whom to purchase raw milk and associated products. Should a farm be found to be negligent in practice, it is up to both the consumer and the chapter leader to talk to the farmer, and if things are not turned around, that farm should be removed from the resource list for that local chapter. I have had to do this personally and while difficult, it is well worth it to protect the consumer, and the reputation of whole, natural raw milk.
As to production practices, here are a few links to read more:
https://www.realmilk.com/safety/on-milk-production/
http://f2cfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/newRawMilkProduction.pdf
Maureen, The link you provided is to a website which is actually owned by the “food safety law fir”‘ of Marler Clark LLP, PS.. Marler Clark is a plaintiffs firm, which represents victims of food-borne illness. They also advocate and educate on this topic. As consumers, I think we have to be savvy with regard to the forces and motivations behind various marketing and “informational” sites. Do they have an agenda? Are they biased? That being said, the Marler Clark website answers some of the questions that you raise, and others. They also provide some recommendations for assessing the environment of your producer and what you can look for in a quality farm. http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/raw-milk-hot-topics# Scroll down to “What type of precautions do farmers take to prevent milk contamination?” which includes also some educational videos.
One thing is nutrition, there is a distinct flavor difference between animals (I have goats) on supplements and broad spectrum minerals and those who are on basic hay or mineral deficient scrub brush. This is the same factor that determines gaminess in the meat. I am working on remineralizing my land with dolomite and limestone (ca/Mg and 60 minerals) Another thing is handling procedures. I was looking at the Meyenburg site , and there was depicted a staff member with her bare hand and arm dipping into a large vat of milk. Our skin has normal bacteria on the surface. In the past before gloves it was important to wash the heck out of one’s hands and arms to work with food in any way. Now we have gloves, but there was no reason for any one to be dipping their arms into the milk. That will just spread bacteria. Likewise, we should not be touching the sides of the bucket or vat or any equipment that will have milk contact with our bare hands, the bacteria will be placed there and incubate into the milk. I learned this early as I would squeeze out every drop from my filter. Boy did that ruin the taste. Do not do that anymore. So you may not be tasting h=just poop or urine, you may be tasting the bacteria from a handler’s hands.
For what it is worth, I cringe when I see workers handling food sometimes, whether in the grocery store at the checkout, or in the deli. Because often they aren’t aware of where the germs are and touch their face, and then touch food. Or worse. It becomes obvious the gloves aren’t there for our protection. Just watch sometime.
I used to work with a man in hospital housekeeping and he would walk around with the thick rubber gloves on, and talk and chat, and touch his own face with those gloves.
Excellent points. Have you found any dairy farms with grass-fed raw milk and products that put safety first and possibly tests their batches of milk? Thank you.
i love the real thing some of you do not even know what your child is drinking call milk it not milk its powder and the fat free how can any one recommend fat free milk for growing kids they are the young Alzheimer patient there are people who makes profit off us and our children been sick they do not have our interest at heart so all those who love to have people tell them what is good for your kids keep on doing what they say and do not wake up and see what they are doing to this generation frying their brains with vaccine which have nothing to do with disease or the health of the child .they are robbing these little boys of their innocency all in the name of circumcision .
It’s so sad how corrupt and cozy our government has become with large corporations. How come we can’t have healthy real food, but we can go out and buy cigarettes and liquor? I love my herdshare, but wish I could just have MORE options to buy raw products when I want and not wait every three weeks to order. I always forget many items and then need to wait another 3 weeks before I can order. We are not the land of the free and haven’t been for a long time. If you notice, corporations run our country now, not the government.
This is the sad but true reality we live with now Natalie; it is up to us to turn things around! Educate, vote, educate some more! Only by doing so can we have any hope of returning to a free society, but in the meantime let’s be grateful for what we do have and share our knowledge with our friends and family.
Thank you for all you do for us, our children and our grandchildren! I have memories as a kid, of going out the front door to get fresh, cold, milk, delivered in glass bottles from Winder Dairy in Salt Lake City, UT. I don’t know if it was raw back then, 50 years ago, but it was really good. I live in Texas now, where I was really happy to find a ‘co-op’ to purchase raw milk. It tastes wholesome and delicious! I can feel it is a live food, bringing life to my microbiome!
I think the best way to handle the raw milk dairy farms that have poor conditions is to legalize raw milk and establish government guidelines for oversight. A follower of Sally Fallon, I found a local supply and was a customer of a dairy that made many people sick in Minnesota. I visited the farm after the outbreak, a couple years after I started drinking it. I wasn’t impressed with the sanitary conditions of the farm. Not every consumer has the time or interest to travel 100+ miles to their closest raw milk dairy to perform an inspection. My impression is that the Weston Price Foundation is opposed to legalization with government oversight and standards. Is that correct? I hope the foundation and the USDA can partner instead of continuing a war of words in the media. Is that possible? I like how organic farmers created a government program to have consistent rules and oversight.
Thanks so much for your organization!
What is the kindest way for the dairy cow to enjoy caring for her calve? When is the best time to wean a calf? I am not a farmer,only an appreciator of your organization.
Kindest regards!
Cynthia
WE DO NOT REQUIRE LEGAL PERMISSION TO HAVE ACCESS TO RAW MILK, IT IS NOT UP TO THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY WERE NEVER GRANTED PRIVILEGES BY US TO REGULATE SUCH THINGS UNLESS BY CONTRACT WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US INDIVIDUALLY,,, OTHERWISE IT IS OUR INHERENT RIGHT TO HAVE ACCESS TO IT AS WELL AS THE INHERENT RIGHT FOR THE FARMS TO PRODUCE AND SELL IT VIA BARTER AND TRADE TO EACH OF US INDIVIDUALLY, NOTHING THE PRIVILEGED GOVERNMENT CAN DO ABOUT IT UNLESS WE WILFULLY CONTRACT WITH THEM.
Sell raw milk and watch how fast they show you your “rights”
Does anyone know about this “new” A2 milk company out of Colorado? They are now selling A2 milk (not organic at all) in various stores. I am troubled by the fact that they do not divulge how their cows are raised or the conditions they stay in. Instead they say that they are Validus Certified. I like the fact that they are A2 but would be extremely delighted if I could be assured that the cows were grass-fed/free range however, they don’t say anything of the like. If anyone knows anything about this farm-group, I would greatly appreciate any feedback. For now, it’s so new that no one really has much information. I hope that the laws can be changed. We need good dairy once again, meaning raw, A2 and grass-fed/organic. Get rid of the bloomin factory farms!
Trying to find raw milk around San Angelo texas
There isn’t true legal access in Ohio without going through the herd share hassle. Legal access is allowing the sale of raw milk without the fear of the USDA showing up with a swat team.
Where can I get raw milk and butter? I live in Yankton South Dakota.
Check local chapter listings here – https://secure.westonaprice.org/cvweb_weston/cgi-bin/utilities.dll/openpage?wrp=chapter_dir.htm#link_SD
Everyone needs to switch to raw milk and get the hell away from pasteurized. That is why people get allergies and are having heart attacks. Raw milk not only boosts the immune system it rebuilds it. It regenerates your teeth, and 100% active Vitamin K2 manages the calcium in your body which is what causes arteriosclerosis the Buildup of calcium in the arteries. Plaque in the arteries is unmanaged calcium. Raw milk will also cure lactose intolerance. People do not understand that lactose intolerance only happens with pasteurized milk. Pasteurized milk is dead. Raw milk is a living organic food which is what our bodies are designed to consume. Get your children away from pasteurized milk and new mothers if you do not want to breastfeed your newborns. Raw cow milk will give your baby 100% live nutrients.
I had 2 babies with diarrhea and the only thing that controlled it was raw milk. I was lucky to have a Polish trained Pediatrician who told me to feed them rice, boiled skim milk and scraped apple which kept them alive until I learned about raw milk.
In 1957 or ’58 so many children died of diarrhea that it was on the front page of the newspaper, and my baby lived.
Where can I get raw milk from a trusted source. I live in Shakopee, MN. I would greatly appreciate it if you can direct me to where to, if you can of course. Thank you 😊
This is so important everyone should get their friends and families involved today! If it weren’t for my local co-op I wouldn’t be who I am today this incorrect mind about raw milk must end!
I love Heinens grocery stores, however the Hartzlers products are not RAW milk products. They are the next best thing since RAW milk is illegal to sell in Ohio other than if you “own” the cow. It is however non-homogenized, low vat pasteurized. The cows are holstein, antibiotic free. I do buy this product since I don’t use enough dairy to justify the cost of a herd share program.
https://www.hartzlerdairy.com/
I live in Ord, Nebraska. Where can I get raw milk?